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Given the size and complexity of the Internet, it might be worth considering making BGP tolerant to Bizantine failures.


There isn't a really useful metric for failure, though. Not every prefix of every AS needs to be reachable from every other. Unlike consensus problems where everyone wants to agree on the same state it's sufficient for the Internet to be in a working state where each AS has enough routes that they care about, and BGP is pretty good at achieving that.




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